Down the Chain

Pirate Insurgency (FOB campaign)

System-level campaignLow SecurityGuristas / Angel Cartel vs empire militias

Introduced with Havoc (Nov 2023): a pirate Forward Operating Base seeds an insurgency that spreads corruption across surrounding lowsec systems, while empire militias push suppression. Running insurgency sites moves the system's corruption/suppression meters — at full corruption, system effects kick in (gate-gun and sec-status changes that favour the pirates). This page is the campaign layer; the individual site types are linked below.

Access C Single-source / unverified

Found via
Insurgency map overlay — spreads from a pirate FOB system across nearby lowsec
Ship restrictions
Not recorded

Payout C Single-source / unverified

Pirate/empire insurgency LP. Roaming named NPCs drop the special loot items that Laundering Facilities / Counter-Insurgency Outposts convert into reward crates.

Escalations

No escalations currently mapped. That is a statement about the Atlas, not the site. Mapping escalation chains is ongoing original research.

Sources

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